Cynic’s New Year (Kill Rock Stars)

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[SUBDUED CRAFTSMANSHIP] Horse Feathers is a band of
subtleties. Creating a rich sonic space using soft arrangements and
minimalist instrumentation is quite a feat. Yet, the Portland band’s
fou
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Service Without A Smile (Self-Released)

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[HIP-HOP] We’re used to Serge Severe being the Sharon
Jones of boom-bap (boom-Baptone?). On his last two records, the Portland
MC has branded himself as a throwback, flowing over jazz and
funk
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Cool Nightmare (Tender Loving Empire)

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[FUTURE POP] I don’t think the members of Radiation City
are perfectionists, but together they make some perfect pop music. The
Portland quintet’s live shows sound like elaborately produced st
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Where the Knives Meet Between the Rows (Laughing Stock)

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[SINGER-SONGWRITER] It has been more than four years since Leigh Marble recorded critically acclaimed sophomore album Red Tornado, and during the elongated gestation of latest offering Where the Knive
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Until the Next Time We Meet (Amigo/Amiga)

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[PO-HOP] When I first heard Portland rapper Tope five
years ago as a member of Living Proof, I immediately fell in love with,
above all else, how fun the music sounded. In an era when many
Portl
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Speak Loud Say Nothing (Seventh Rule Records)

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[SCRAP METAL] Sam Ford and Max Dameron, better known to
Northwest metalheads as Wizard Rifle, create more noise than two human
beings have any conceivable right to make. Composed of merely guitar,
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Court The Storm (Tender Loving Empire)

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[CULTURES CLASHING] The idea of mashing together the disparate worlds of conjuntos
from south of the border and modern, rain-soaked pop is a great one.
But Y La Bamba has never really been able to
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I’ll Meet You There Tomorrow (Self-Released)

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[JAZZ] If the kids pried jazz from the old institutions
that keep the music on life support and reinvented it for
themselves—could this music be cool again? And what would a generation
of new
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Portland artists cover classic Portland songs for PDX Pop Now!

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[PORTLAND MUSIC] Why shouldn’t the navel-gazingest city in
the country have a compilation of its current bands covering important
bands from its past? We’ve got our own TV show, after all.&nbs
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Self-Titled (Self-Released)

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[INDIE ROCK] Somewhere between And And And’s carefree,
swaggering basement pop and Typhoon’s controlled and confessional rock
operettas, Pheasant is holding its ground. The local quintet’s s
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